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Musing on PR, privacy & confidence – part 2

Posted by Paul Seaman under Trust and reputations on 19 August 2010. 3 comments.

What are we PRs to do with the troublesome issue of privacy? We certainly have an interest in leading this debate because reputations are linked to the public’s perception of its protection. More »

Musing on PR, privacy and confidence – part 1

Posted by Paul Seaman under Trust and reputations on 19 August 2010. One comment.

Google’s Eric Schmidt says we should be able to reinvent our identity at will. That’s daft. But he’s got a point. Most personalities possess more than one side. More »

Google comes of age in China

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / Trust and reputations on 12 July 2010. 4 comments.

‘Do No Evil’ Google has, rightly, returned to China. However, Google was also right when it withdrew because its reputation and survival were at stake. More »

Briefing for PRs on E2.0′s brave new world

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / PR issues on 21 May 2010. 6 comments.

There’s been lots of talk in PR circles about value networks and the network society. Here I take a closer look at what the fuss is all about and issue a note of caution and a call to moderate the hype. More »

Stockholm Accords interrogated – part 2

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / PR issues on 4 May 2010. 3 comments.

Here’s the second in my trilogy on the Stockholm Accords. This one deals with the Accords themselves, following part 1′s examination of their definition of terms. More »

Time to reappraise Facebook

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / Trust and reputations on 23 April 2010. 8 comments.

I had thought that Facebook would go the way of Friends Reunited, Bebo and MySpace: hyped today, sidelined tomorrow. But what if Facebook became the new Google? That’s now the company’s objective and it is backed by some substance. More »

Tyranny of Tiger Woods-type apologies

Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Opinion research / Trust and reputations on 21 February 2010. 3 comments.

Here’s a critique of the tyranny of apologies and the hypocrisy of sponsors and the general public. It’s a call to all to stop faking it. It is a cry for the return of commonsense, reserve and a mind-your-own-business attitude. More »

Blowing the whistle on Wikileaks

Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Media issues / Trust and reputations on 1 February 2010. 4 comments.

Warning: this post is counter-revolutionary. A recent BBC’s Culture Show celebrated how Wikileaks exposes anything which comes its way with no chance of legal comeback. Supposedly this will usher in a revolution in openness. Here’s the case against transparency in defence of trust. More »

BM’s COO Roman Geiser interviewed

Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues / Zurich on 12 November 2009. One comment.

When local boy Roman Geiser, Burson-Marsteller’s Swiss CEO, was catapulted into the stratosphere as Chief Operating Officer for EMEA, I just had to make the twenty-minute train ride to Zurich to interview him. More »

Mr Devlin & The Golden Goose: the movie?

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / Trust and reputations on 21 December 2008. One comment.

The Matthew Devlin story of insider trading is the stuff of movies. The protagonists are glamorous bankers and a PR executive at the centre of big Wall Street deals. There’s even a former Playboy model. In the current spate of capitalist dramas, this is merely a piquant sub-plot. More »

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